Music For Fun #3

I wanted to share a recording I took on Sunday at Trinity Methodist Church in Smith County, MS. This was from a yearly gathering there for former members and relatives of former members since passed away. The church is currently inactive, but the grounds and cemetery are maintained by the association that my father and his father before him lead.  

This recording is two piano pieces played by an elderly lady that has been coming to the Trinity Reunions for many years. Both she and her husband have a very hard time getting around these days, but they travel a long way to come every year. She always moves people when she gets behind the piano, playing from memory and a style that has passed away from general audiences. 

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Trinity Methodist Church -- Piano

Music For Fun #2

This is the jazz piece that I promised in the last post.

The Covenant -- Unnamed (Live: 7/21/09)

Music For Fun #1

Chris Ruhs, Josiah Meints, and I have formed an impromptu musical collaboration called The Covenant. We did this to perform at a program Chris's wife, Anna, has scheduled for her Young Adult (YA) group at the public library. Word on the street is that we're going to be playing electric guitars in the stacks...shhh.

Anyway, we had a productive practice session last night that I wanted to share. Its all a little rough, but enjoyable nonetheless. Here is the lineup:

• Me (Eric Tramel): Clarinet, Vocals
• Josiah: Guitar, Vocals
• Chris: Djembe, Vocals, and some Clarinet twiddling during warmup

These two selections, one I'm posing now and another I'm posting immediately after this, are our arrangement of the song Simon&Garfunkel popularized and you all know by heart: Scarborough Fair. After this is an improvisational jazz piece that is yet unnamed which we threw together. I hope you enjoy!

The Covenant -- Scarborough Fair (live: 7/21/09)